21. New Scientist Special Report On Climate Change Europeans see it in disappearing glaciers, forest fires and fatal heat waves. Ocean heat store makes climate change inevitable http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change

@import url(/decorator/css/climate-change.css); Free E-Zine Subscribe to Magazine Customer Service 22 September 2005 HO M E N ... JOBS JOB OF THE WEEK Science Outreach Specialist Joint Astronomy Center Hilo, US Hawaii Biologist/Ecologist ... Clean energy special: A greener goal for coal Like it or not, coal is here to stay. But that does not have to be a disaster for the climate, suggests Bennett Daviss 03 September 2005 EXPERT GUIDE Instant Expert: Climate Change Climate change is with us. A decade ago, it was conjecture. Now the future is unfolding before our eyes. Canada's Inuit see it in disappearing Arctic ice and permafrost . The shantytown dwellers of Latin America and Southern Asia see it in lethal storms and floods. Europeans see it in disappearing glaciers forest fires and fatal heat waves Scientists see it in tree rings ancient coral and bubbles trapped in ice cores . These reveal that the world has not been as warm as it is now for a millennium or more. The three warmest years on record have all occurred since 1998; 19 of the warmest 20 since 1980. And Earth has probably never warmed as fast as in the past 30 years - a period when natural influences on global temperatures, such as solar cycles and volcanoes should have cooled us down.

22. Matsuo Basho | "Heat Waves Shimmering" | Poetry Archive | Plagiarist.com Plagiarist.com A searchable archive of classic and contemporary poetry, articles about poetry, analysis, and reviews. http://plagiarist.com/poetry/3470/

Skip Navigation Plagiarist Poetry Sites: Plagiarist.com Poetry X Poetry Discussion Forums Open Poetry Project ... Joycean.org poetry texts, poem archive at plagiarist.com Free Mini Mac It works! poetry Poets ... Links Plagiarist.com Archive Matsuo Basho Print Analysis Comments Heat waves shimmering Matsuo Basho Heat waves shimmering one or two inches above the dead grass. Translated by Robert Hass Added: Last Read: Viewed: 1704 times delivered in 5-6 days For more information... URL: http://plagiarist.com/poetry/3470/ Poetry X Newsletter: Hosted by tranquil host Contact Us

23. Heat Waves - An Optical Illusion From Eyetricks.com. eyetricks.com provides a wide selection of online optical illusions and other mind teasing oddities. http://www.eyetricks.com/heatwaves.htm

Heat Waves Download Screenshot Download Heat Waves Now! Download the file (heatwaves.exe) and run it. The program will automatically install itself. Stare at the center of the moving image for approximately 60 seconds and then look at some writing or something similar. This optical illusion should cause the writing to be wavy (much like heat waves on the highway on a very hot day!) Site Designed and Maintained by BWH Ventures, LLC Please Email us with questions or comments

24. Humans May Double The Risk Of Heat Waves (washingtonpost.com) Human activity has at least doubled the risk of heat waves like the one in 2003 that The researchers did not point to a single cause of the heat wave, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26605-2004Dec1.html

var SA_Message="SACategory=" + thisNode; Hello Edit Profile Sign Out Sign In Register Now ... Subscribe to SEARCH: News Web var ie = document.getElementById?true:false; ie ? formSize=27 : formSize=24 ; document.write(''); Top 20 E-mailed Articles washingtonpost.com Nation Special Reports ... E-Mail This Article RSS News Feeds Top News Global Warming What is RSS? All RSS Feeds Humans May Double the Risk of Heat Waves Models Show That by 2040, Half of Europe's Summers Could Be as Hot as in 2003 By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 2, 2004; Page A10 Human activity has at least doubled the risk of heat waves like the one in 2003 that killed thousands in Europe, researchers conclude in a study being published today in the scientific journal Nature. The three British authors Peter A. Stott of the University of Reading, and D.A. Stone and M.R. Allen of Oxford University used two computer models to assess the likelihood that a summer like that in 2003, which was Europe's hottest in centuries and was blamed for at least 35,000 deaths, would have occurred without human influences. They concluded, at a confidence level of more than 90 percent, that human activity doubled, if not quadrupled, the chances of "a heat wave exceeding this threshold magnitude." Free E-mail Newsletters See a Sample Sign Up Now See a Sample Sign Up Now Federal Insider See a Sample Sign Up Now Breaking News Alerts See a Sample Sign Up Now The report is the first attempt to calculate the extent to which human activity has affected the chances of a specific weather event occurring.

25. Early Warning Signs Of Global Warming Heat Waves Information about the threats to the global environment from global warming and the loss of biological diversity, which includes the contribution of forests http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/global_warming/page.cfm?pageID=504

26. Heat Wave: Definition And Much More From Answers.com heat wave n. A period of unusually hot weather. Some regions of the globe are more susceptible to heat waves than others, such Mediterraneantype http://www.answers.com/topic/heat-wave

showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Health ... More... On this page: Dictionary WordNet Wikipedia Translations Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping heat wave Dictionary heat wave n. A period of unusually hot weather. var tcdacmd="cc=edu;dt"; WordNet Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words. The noun heat wave has one meaning: Meaning #1 a period of unusually hot weather Synonyms: hot weather hot spell Wikipedia heat wave A heat wave is a prolonged period of excessively hot weather , which may be accompanied by excessive humidity . The term is relative to the usual weather in the area, so temperatures that people from a hotter climate find normal can be a heat wave if they are outside the normal pattern for a cooler area. The term is applied both to "ordinary" weather variations and to extraordinary spells of heat which may only occur once a century. Some regions of the globe are more susceptible to heat waves than others, such Mediterranean -type climates with a summer dry spell which on certain years becomes much hotter than usual.

27. Heat Wave Sweeps Much Of Nation, With Health Risks Everywhere - CME Teaching Bri Warn elderly patients about increased risk during heat waves and advise them to avoid The July heat wave claimed 21 lives in Arizona where temperatures http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/PublicHealth/tb/1391

HOME/LATEST HEADLINES NEWS BY SPECIALTY 2005 Meeting Coverage Cardiovascular Dermatology Endocrinology ... Surgery NEW USERS: REGISTER HERE RETURNING USERS: LOG IN UPDATE YOUR PROFILE CME TRACKER ABOUT MEDPAGE TODAY ... HELP CENTER Heat Wave Sweeps Much of Nation, With Health Risks Everywhere By Peggy Peck, Senior Editor, MedPage Today Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco July 28, 2005 Also covered by: CBS News LA Times (Registration Req.) Washington Post (Registration Req.) MedPage Today Action Points Advise patients to increase hydration with extra water, juice or electrolyte-balanced drinks during heat waves. Warn elderly patients about increased risk during heat waves and advise them to avoid being outdoors during daylight hours and use fans or air conditioners. Caution patients using anticholinergic drugs, diuretics, or Aricept that they have an increased risk for heat-related illness. Review FORT A.P. HILL, Va., July 28-Three hundred Boy Scouts here for the group’s National Jamboree were treated for heat-related illness, making them the latest to fall victim to the heat wave that gripped the nation for most of July. Storms passing through midwest and into the east brought some release from the unrelenting heat and humidity, but not before heat fatigue added yet another problem for the estimated 10,000 Scouts gathered here. A day earlier four Scout leaders from Alaska died when a metal tent pole they were installing hit an electric line.

28. New Breed Of Heat Wave -- Press Release heat waves today are different than they were a half century ago because The northern Illinois heat waves of 1995 and 1999 claimed hundreds of lives. http://www.niu.edu/pubaffairs/presskits/changnon/release.html

Press Release Photos Graphics Paper ... Home Contact: Tom Parisi , Office of Public Affairs Professor David Changnon Office: (815) 753-6835 August 14, 2002 New breed of heat wave NIU researcher: It's not the summer heat but the humidity DeKalb, Ill.- A study by Northern Illinois University climatologist David Changnon indicates the Chicago region is more apt now than in decades past to experience heat waves accompanied by extreme and dangerous spikes in humidity. And a familiar crop with a propensity to sweat day and night could be at the root of the problem. "Our research findings at NIU suggest that a new, more dangerous breed of heat wave has become established in northeastern Illinois," said David Changnon, a climatologist and NIU professor of meteorology. "Heat waves today are different than they were a half century ago because they are more frequently accompanied by extreme spikes in humidity," Changnon said. "I strongly suspect that changes in agricultural methods — particularly in the area of corn production — are playing a major role in this by adding more water vapor to the lower atmosphere of the Upper Midwest." All plants transpire, that is, release water vapor into the atmosphere through their leaves. Corn is unique in that it belongs to a family of plants that transpire, or sweat, both day and night. "Stand in any cornfield and you can feel the increased humidity," Changnon said.

29. Future Heat Waves: More Severe, More Frequent, Longer Lasting heat waves in Chicago, Paris, and elsewhere in North America and Europe will become more intense, more frequent and longer lasting in the 21st century, http://www.hypography.com/article.cfm?id=34271

30. More Heat Waves Expected Boulder CO (UPI) Aug 23, 2004 Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research say global warming will bring about more frequent and more http://www.spacedaily.com/news/climate-04zzo.html

EARTH OBSERVATION More Heat Waves Expected At least we can agree that the politics of it are red hot by Dan Whipple Boulder CO (UPI) Aug 23, 2004 Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research say global warming will bring about more frequent and more intense heat waves in the United States and Europe. In the past, heat waves have increased the risk of death to the elderly and children. In 2003, for instance, various estimates showed the Paris heat wave took between 7,000 and 15,000 lives. Some 700 people died prematurely in a 1995 heat wave in Chicago. In a paper published in the journal Science this month, NCAR senior scientist Gerald Meehl and colleague Claudia Tebaldi reported the results of global climate model runs that show "there is a distinct geographic pattern to future changes in heat waves. Model results for areas of Europe and North America, associated with the severe heat waves in Chicago in 1995 and Paris in 2003, show that future heat waves in these areas will become more intense, more frequent and longer lasting in the second half of the 21st century, the authors wrote. The prediction is based on model results but there is a meteorological explanation that fits, Meehl told United Press International. Heat waves usually are associated with stationary domes of high pressure over an area.

31. Heat Wave - DrGreene.com heat waves kill more people each year than all other natural disasters combined. http://www.drgreene.com/21_996.html

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32. Heat Waves, Hurricanes Predicted For Summer In U.S. As the season of long days and short nights, barbecues and cold drinks, and lakeshore and beachfront retreats is kicked off this Memorial Day weekend, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0522_030522_summerweather.html

Site Index Subscribe Shop Search Top 15 Most Popular Stories NEWS Front Page Environment Health Offbeat ... Video in the News SPECIAL SERIES The Genographic Project Pulse of the Planet National Geographic Channel RESOURCES (What's this?) Contact Us sponsored in part by Front Page Heat Waves, Hurricanes Predicted for Summer in U.S. By John Roach for National Geographic News May 22, 2003 Full Story: As the season of long days and short nights, barbecues and cold drinks, and lakeshore and beachfront retreats is kicked off this Memorial Day weekend, forecasters train their gaze on charts and graphs as they attempt to predict the fickle summer weather. "In summer we are not dealing primarily with a jet stream," said Mike Halpert, a meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Prediction Center in Camp Springs, Maryland. "It typically shifts northward into Canada." The lack of a main jet stream over the United States makes the prediction work of Halpert and his colleagues difficult. In the winter months, the jet stream tracks storms across the country in predictable patterns that are influenced by long-term ocean currents. "For summertime rainfall there are not any long-term trends to point us one way or another," said Halpert. Instead, unsettled summer weather tends to be dominated by isolated thunderstorms spawned by localized humidity and heat.

33. Heat Waves heat waves form when an air mass becomes stationary over a region. heat waves are dangerous because heat kills by taxing the human body beyond its http://www.co.pasquotank.nc.us/departments/911/webpage/heatwaves.htm

Heat Index Chart / NWS Alert Procedures A heat wave is an extended interval of abnormally hot and usually humid weather, usually lasting from a few days to over a week. Heat waves form when an air mass becomes stationary over a region. Hot humid air masses form over the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea while hot dry air masses form over the desert Southwest and northern Mexico. In the Eastern United States a heat wave occurs when a high pressure system originating in the Gulf of Mexico becomes stationary just off the Atlantic Seaboard (typically known as a Bermuda High.) The SW winds on the back side of the High continue to pump hot, humid Gulf air North-eastward resulting in a spell of hot and humid weather for much of the Eastern States. Heat Waves are dangerous because heat kills by taxing the human body beyond its abilities. In a normal year, about 175 Americans succumb to the demands of summer heat. Among the large continental family of natural hazards, only the cold of winter - not lightning, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, or earthquakes - takes a greater toll. In the 40-year period from 1936 through 1975, nearly 20,000 people were killed in the United States by the effects of heat and solar radiation. In the disastrous heat wave of 1980, more than 1,250 people died. The July 1995 heat wave caused more than 1,000 heat-related deaths across the Midwest and East Coast. And these are the direct casualties. No one can know how many more deaths are advanced by heat wave weather - how many diseased or aging hearts surrender that under better conditions would have continued functioning.

34. Metroactive Music | Classical Music Festivals Classical heat waves. The summer s classicalmusic festivals shine from Carmel and Santa Cruz to Saratoga and Menlo Park. By Scott MacClelland http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/07.13.05/classical-0528.html

Music Index Silicon Valley Metroactive Home Archives Stringing Along : The Emerson String Quartet appears at Music@Menlo. Classical Heat Waves The summer's classical-music festivals shine from Carmel and Santa Cruz to Saratoga and Menlo Park By Scott MacClelland Midsummer Mozart K ICKING OFF the great summer music festivals on Bastille Day, Midsummer Mozart highlights its exclusive composer's French music at the Montalvo Arts Center, including the ballet music Les petits riens and the Paris Symphony. A feature of the program (to be repeated at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, Sonoma's Gundlach Bundschu Winery and Berkeley's St. John's Presbyterian Church) is the much-loved Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364, with violinist Robin Hanson and violist Victor Romasevich. Well-known Bay Area dancer Maria Basile has choreographed and will dance to Les petits riens After three decades, founding conductor George Cleve, never a retiring violet, says of himself, "I'm not a Mozart expert, just a Mozart enthusiast." The festival's second program (July 21 at Mission Santa Clara) includes the Piano Concerto no. 15 in B-flat, with the internationally esteemed Seymour Lipkin as soloist, and the "Great" Mass in C Minor with the 40-voice Cantabile Chorale and a vocal quartet of exceptional talent from Opera San Jose: Christina Major, Deborah Berioli, Joseph Muir and Joseph Wright. Major will also sing the concert aria Ch'io mi scordi di te?

35. Human Activity Tied To Deadly Heat Waves - First Aid: Health And Medical Informa Includes basic and advanced First Aid techniques for common first aid situations. http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=40871

36. Science & Technology At Scientific American.com: Model Predicts Future Heat Wave Model Predicts Future heat waves Will be More Intense Paris, meanwhile, might experience heat waves lasting up to 17 days instead of between eight and http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00004D84-CF8F-111B-8C4583414B7F4945

37. Heat Waves In the disastrous heat wave of 1980, more than 1250 people died. North American summers are hot; most summers see heat waves in one section or another http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/heatwave.html

HEAT WAVES CONTENTS: > National Weather Service Statement > Heat Index Calculator > Heat Wave Links NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE - "Heat Waves" A National Problem Heat kills by taxing the human body beyond its abilities. In a normal year, about 175 Americans succumb to the demands of summer heat. Among the large continental family of natural hazards, only the cold of winter not lightning, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, or earthquakes takes a greater toll. In the 40-year period from 1936 through 1975, nearly 20,000 people were killed in the United States by the effects of heat and solar radiation. In the disastrous heat wave of 1980, more than 1,250 people died. And those are the direct causalities. No one can know how many more deaths are advanced by heat wave weather how many diseased or aging hearts surrender, that under better conditions would have continued functioning. North American summers are hot; most summers see heat waves in one section or another of the United States. East of the Rockies, they tend to combine both high temperatures and high humidity although some of the worst have been catastrophically dry. NOAA's National Weather Service Heat Index Program Considering this tragic death toll, the National Weather Service has stepped up its efforts to alert more effectively the general public and appropriate authorities to the hazards of heat waves those prolonged excessive heat/humidity episodes.

38. Heat Wave@Everything2.com heat waves are the deadliest of weather phenomena in the developed world, Some of the worst heatwaves in history have occured in France in August 2003 http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=heat wave

39. CPL Chicago: 1915, 1916, 1955, 1995: Heat Waves The 1915 heat wave was credited with 535 deaths from heatstroke as well as high Daley Readies Response in Case of New Heat Wave. Chicago Sun Times. http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/disasters/heat_waves.html

Compiled by Ellen O'Brien and Lyle Benedict, Reference Librarians in CPL's Municipal Reference Collection 1915, 1916, 1955, 1995: Heat Waves Image from:U.S. National Weather Service . Natural Disaster Survey Report: July 1995 Heat Wave. (Click image for larger view) Hot late July weather in each of these years caused high mortality. The 1915 heat wave was credited with 535 deaths from "heatstroke" as well as high general mortality for the summer. 1955 had the hottest July on record and accounted for a large number of deaths. In 1995, hot weather again claimed over 500 lives and was a contributing cause in more than 200 additional deaths. The 1995 deaths received dramatic media coverage because of the current requirement that deaths outside of hospitals be autopsied by the Cook County Medical Examiner. Below is a short exceprt from the Cook County Hospital Annual Report for 1916 p.15 showing the serious consequences of the weather that year: Heat Prostrations Cared for Another test which strained the service of the institution to the utmost came during the extreme heat of last summer when our empoyes worked day and night almost without sleep trying to save the lives of over two hundred persons who were overcome by heat. The patients were not merely given a bath and put to bed. The had to be put in large bath tubs filled with ice water and rubbed for half an hour or more until their temperature were brought somewhere near normal. When they were broutht into the hospital their tempertures could not be registered, for they were highter thatn the thermometer would record, 110 depgrees. The clothes of practically all these pattients had to be destroyed. The employes had to work in obnoxious odors with the patients delirious and having convulsions, and it is surprising that they themselves were not overcome with heat while working so hard."

40. Future Heat Waves: More Severe, More Frequent, Longer Lasting heat waves in Chicago, Paris, and elsewhere in North America and Europe will become more intense, more frequent, and longer lasting in the 21st century, http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-08/ncfa-fhw081104.php

Public release date: 12-Aug-2004 E-mail Article Contact: Anatta anatta@ucar.edu Jerry Meehl meehl@ucar.edu National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Future heat waves: More severe, more frequent, longer lasting BOULDER—Heat waves in Chicago, Paris, and elsewhere in North America and Europe will become more intense, more frequent, and longer lasting in the 21st century, according to a new modeling study by two scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). In the United States, the increase in heat wave severity will be greatest in the West and the South. The findings appear in the August 13 issue of the journal Science Gerald Meehl and Claudia Tebaldi, both of NCAR, examined Earth's future climate using the Parallel Climate Model, developed by NCAR and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). NCAR's primary sponsor, the National Science Foundation, and the DOE funded the study, with additional support from NCAR's Weather and Climate Impact Assessment Initiative. Model results show that an increase in heat-absorbing greenhouse gases intensifies an unusual atmospheric circulation pattern already observed during heat waves in Europe and North America. As the pattern becomes more pronounced, severe heat waves occur in the Mediterranean region and the southern and western United States. Other parts of France, Germany, and the Balkans also become more susceptible to severe heat waves.

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